On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, semat wrote:
Personally I go with sendmail firstly of late most of the bugs were ironed out and thus it is considered quite safe. However postfix is a good alternative to sendmail and more secre. However I found it harder to configure than sendmail.
I found postfix (www.postfix.org) MUCH easier to configure than sendmail. I got things working right away that I had not figured out how to do properly after reading lots of sendmail documents. And is designed to be secure right from the start, unlike sendmail. All it takes is one simple error in any number of configuration files for sendmail and you're cracked! You may not consider security important for a server that serves up "public" information. But consider if someone broke in and changed the public information to say something else that you did not intend to - as has hapenned on other sites. Consider your time to reinstall the system after it has been cracked. Consider if you want your host to be used as a base for cracking other hosts, once someone has broken in. and so on. Try postfix - you'll like it. the SuSE RPM packages make it easy to switch to sendmail after if you change your mind. Brett a recent postix convert